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Patrick Connor reacted to a post in a topic: 2.6.0 Beta Build RC1 (3058)
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2.6.0 Beta Build RC1 (3058)
mdriftmeyer replied to Patrick Connor's topic in New Features and Improvements in 2.6 Beta
I think it has to do with the performance cores. The A17 bionic only has 2 performance cores. The M1 has 4 performance cores alongside 4 efficiency cores. The M2 offered 4, 6, 8, 16 performance core configurations. With the advent of the M4 line only the entry level iPad and iPad mini lacked an M processor. This way they can focus on M series only moving forward. Sooner or later even the iPad entry will have an M series processor. -
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Affinity Programs take too long to open on macOS
mdriftmeyer replied to Santiago V Ramos's topic in V2 Bugs found on macOS
That doesn't square with the responsiveness of Logic Pro and FCP. What washes is that because they have too much cross-platform in their APIs [Windows bloat] it's a compromise they accepted for a larger user base. Well the user base is patient to a point. The Mac drove your success. Investing into two teams of developers now that you've been bought out is peanuts to the wealth generation potential. I speak having been in Engineering, Consulting, Professional Services at NeXT and later Apple. I guarantee the application base is a mish mash of hooks for C++ in Visual Studio and C++ in Xcode. I doubt they ever bothered learning ObjC/ObjC++ and when Swift came along with it's inherent bloat even Apple is still relying mainly on C/ObjC and C++/C in XNU kernel with ObjC++ hooks where necessary. I have an Acapella Licks track of over 40 tracks, roughly 12+ gigs of audio in Logic Pro 11.0.1. LP takes 5 seconds to launch w/ no session. It takes 5 seconds to launch that session where I mix in real-time with outboard Rupert Neve Designs gear and bounce my STEMS. I don't use a lot of F/x plugins. My main compressors are 5254s by RPN and soon the Master Buss Processor arrives outbound to the MBC for a limited near master mix. A clean session of Affinity Photo 2.5.x takes roughly 40 seconds to launch. It's not nearly as encompassing as Logic Pro. The issue is with Windows and it's APIs and how you've not abstracted between platforms and reduced labor costs for a less than stellar result. Adobe had to hire us at Apple for consulting on their Mac projects for a solid decade because they figured we do a better job being Apple on teaching and improving their code bases. And people wonder and complain that Apple has a 30% tax when they built everything and you still cannot manage to become proficient in the frameworks. -
Can someone answer how it takes 20-30 seconds to load Designer 2.5.1 and all the 2.x series apps for the first time. On the M2 Mini maxed out CPU/GPU/RAM, etc., this loads like a turd the first time. Close the app and About panel snaps forward and front and the app loads within a few seconds. Still slower than Logic Pro 11.0 that was just released but I expect that to be the case. However, each new version of Logic loads ever faster, unlike the 2.x series that clearly must need to load a lot behind the scenes before it can be presented in the most basic standard view.
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mdriftmeyer reacted to a post in a topic: 2.5.0 can't start on MacOS
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mdriftmeyer reacted to a post in a topic: Bugs across Affinity Suite
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pxlape reacted to a post in a topic: How to Create a Vertical Skyline Text Effect in Affinity Photo
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Just a note: pt != pixels. Those are point sizes.
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mdriftmeyer reacted to a post in a topic: Affinity V2 Suite, 2.4.1 Updates (off topic conversation split)
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AutoCorrect - Capitalise first letter of sentences
mdriftmeyer replied to MikeTO's topic in V2 Bugs found on macOS
Auto capitalization should default to the OS system paradigm. -
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mdriftmeyer reacted to a post in a topic: Layer states added to Designer and Publisher plus changes to functionality
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MarcusThueste reacted to a post in a topic: Apps not opening at all because they're trying to connect to a now defunct server
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loukash reacted to a post in a topic: Apps not opening at all because they're trying to connect to a now defunct server
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An app attempts to connect to a server mount point should time out with a notification which mount point fails and then default to user desktop path in Finder. Affinity should contact Apple Dev for clarification on this and what methods need to be called to produce such behavior within the apps so this doesn’t hang the application. They should test the length of timeout optimal from user feedback. UNIX command line timeouts on NeXTSTEP we had preset to 900 ms before pipe closed. Personally, I wished they never split OS X in two and then gutted the server side services. You should launch the app executable from Terminal.app to record the output and find out if it is specific to the application or an issue with macOS/OS X.
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Update to OCIO v2.0
mdriftmeyer replied to theartofsaul's topic in Feedback for Affinity Photo V1 on Desktop
It's a big upgrade, but one that will be universally adopted and should have already been on their radar for the past twelve months or so. I'm looking forward to it as it is required to build the likes of Blender 2.93 and newer. -
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The spinning beach ball is a non-modal state to allow the system to manage processes dealing with cache, swapping, writing and more and thus whenever one hits a wall with physical memory and core activities it will surface. This goes back to our NeXTSTEP operating system us NeXT folks developed and brought to Apple. And first rule of thumb in any large image processing, video scrubbing, audio mixing, etc., you max out your system RAM and get the fastest drives you can.
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Dimensioning tool, please!
mdriftmeyer replied to rt-it's topic in Feedback for the Affinity V2 Suite of Products
Blender has this feature. To have this feature for CAD/CAM, isometric top, front, side and 3D projection (really 2.5d) and leveraging brushes for shading would give the Suite blueprint scale production and Publisher a huge lift in technical publishing